Quotes
Quotes about Affliction
Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!
Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced
That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction,--
That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour
Serves but to brighten all our future days.
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;
A brother to relieve,--how exquisite the bliss!
'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower
Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind
Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower,
And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.
Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour, Serves but to brighten our future days!
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.
Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.'
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,
With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!
Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray; As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction
When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
